SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2024
Grating, Gradient, and Then Some, Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Panel April 24: with Jean Khalfa, Rod Mengham and Drew Milne
The Flow Chart Foundation; Marjorie Welish in Conversation with Steve Clay at the Flow Chart Space, Hudson, New York
Book launch of Subject to Change, a collaborative artists’ books, by Michael Corris, Stéphane Mroczkowski, Alexandra Pignol, and Marjorie
Welish, Mare et Martin
2023
The Flow Chart Foundation; Marjorie Welish & David Grubbs in Conversation and Performance, Hudson, New York
Of the Sign: Art of Marjorie Welish, The Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, New York
de/cipher, first edition: Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung [Society for Art and Design], Bonn, DE; second edition: Arti et Amicitiae [For Art and Friendship], Amsterdam.
Seminar in “Material Texts,” presenting Oaths? Questions?, Columbia University, New York
2022
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee.
11 Women of Spirit, part 5, Galerie Zurcher, New York.
2021
Phase 4 Intersections – Art/Architecture edited by Benet Spencer and David Ryan [catalogue image], University of Greenwich, London
2018
American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational: purchase / The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2017
Paper Architecture: Urbanism [with Olivier Gourvil and urbanist Muriel Pagès], La Terrasse, Nanterre, FR
2016
Some Differences, Art-3, New York
Phase 1, Ruskin Gallery, Angelia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Break Ground, [with Joe Amrhein], Art-3, New York
2015
Cabinet, Emanuel von Baeyer, London
The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books, an exhibition to acknowledge the acquisition by Columbia University of Granary Books archive, Columbia University, New York
Based on Drawing, Satellite Berlin, Berlin
2014
Radio 22, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, FR
Oaths? Questions? contributed to Believe Half of What You See And None of What You Hear, conceived by Georgia Kotretsos, as part of the exhibition Sous nos yeux (part 1), curated by Abdellah Karroumat, La Kunsthalle of Mulhouse, in collaboration with the University Haute-Alsace (SUAC) and Radio Campus Mulhouse, FR
Source Materials, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
2013
BILD TEXT / Arrangement and Attitude, Galerie Peithner-Lichenfels, Vienna
2011
Before, During and After: The Story of a Work, Denison University Museum, Granville, Ohio
2009
Book a Table, Rocket Gallery, London.
New York New Drawings 1946-2007, [from the Werner Kramarsky collection], Museo Arte de Contemporaneo, Esteban Vicente, Segovia, ES [catalogue]
2008
Bjorn Ressle, New York
Group show [conceptual and concrete works], Gesellschaft fur Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, DE
2007
Solo, Aaron Galleries, Chicago
[art by writers], Anita Shapolsky, New York
Image Works, Word Works [with Norma Cole and Tom Raworth; also, TNWK], Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
2006
Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, curated by Nancy Doll and Xandra Eden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Baumgartner Gallery [with Helmut Federle], New York
2005
Paper Architecture / Architecture de Papier [with Olivier Gourvil], brochure essay by Joseph Masheck, Slought Projects, Philadelphia
2002
Transcendent & Unrepentant, organized and with essay by Sid Sachs, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, the University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2001
Baumgartner Galley [with Peter Downsbrough], New York
1999
Marking, Center Arts, Tucson, Arizona
1997
Solo, Donahue /Sosinski Gallery, New York
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting, curated by Lilly Wei, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Group exhibition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
1995
E.M. Donahue, New York. Brochure essay by Elaine King.
1993
E.M. Donahue, New York. Brochure essay by William S. Wilson.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
2021 & 1997
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee IPS
2000—11
Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, 2006-11; Spring 2010 (Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland); grantee Spring 2007(University of Frankfurt,Germany)
2010
Artist-in-residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004
The Fifth Floor Foundation (to support cooperative project with O. Gourvil)
2003
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1997
Trust for Mutual Understanding: International Studio Program and The Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland
1995
International Studio Program, New York
1993
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
1990
Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
LIMITED-EDITION BOOKS/ARTIST MULTIPLE/ SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023
Subject to Change, collaborative image-text book, with Michael Corris and Stéphane Mroczkowski, published by Mare et Martin
Oaths? Questions?, performed by Marjorie Welish, sponsored through Monira Foundation
2022
Inscription #3 journal publishing limited edition art prints in conjunction, edited by Simon Morris, launch and conferences in November
2021
Project X (limited-edition collaborative construction, with Gracia Khouw
2020
Holiday Pop-Up Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, December 8—31
2019
Between Sincerity and Irony (limited edition collaborative construction, with Dan Walsh)
2015
PUSH BAR TO OPEN (video of art and text interpreting functional transformations in the Inverleith House, Scotland, from an 18th Century residence to a 20th-Century project space for art): Michela Bondardo Presents [with Buzz Spector], New York, April 2, 2015; University of Paris, 8, host Vincent Broqua, March 6, 2015; Double Change et la Fondation des Etats-Unis [with Nicole Brossard and Jean Frémon], March 6
2013
A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998. eds., Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, Wesleyan University Press. [cover]
Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, eds. Jeremy Noel-Tod and Ian Hamilton, Oxford University Press. [cover]
“Les Espaces du Livre /Spaces of the Book,” Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, September 6—7
2011-13
“Fine and Dirty,” curated by Betty Bright, traveling exhibition of artists’ books, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Chicago, New York
2009
Oaths? Questions? (with James Siena), Granary Books
Art on Paper: “Tactical Antagonisms” [feature], November-December
2007
“The Napkin and its Double,” [with Buzz Spector], Granary Books
2003
Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish, edited by Aaron Levy, conference book and website on Welish’s art and writing [Philadelphia: Slought Books]
2002
“Marjorie Welish,” University of Pennsylvania, April 5
Organized by Slought Network. Papers: Jean-Michel Rabaté, Joseph Masheck, Osvaldo Romberg, Norma Cole, Bob Perelman, Keith Tuma, Thomas Zummer, Aaron D. Levy. Responses: Kenneth Baker, Deborah Gans, Matthew Jelacic, Frances Richards, Olivier Gourvil, Carla Harryman, Chris Tysh, and Ronald Janssen. Web retrospective of art.
1999
“Juste_une_Image” [website], November
1997
Tableau: territoires actuels (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence and Le Quartier [art center], Quimper)
ON THE ARTIST: FEATURED
2024
Under the Cover, Artforum, Marjorie Welish in Conversation with Alex Jovanovich, March
Ten-page Portfolio introduced by Michelle Grabner, Artforum, February
2022
Profile by Barbara MacAdam, Art & Object [online] December
2013
Selected by Raphael Rubinstein for a feature in Art in America, July-August, is a painting from the series “Indecidability of the Sign: Frame,” to be seen in conjunction with a poem “In the Name of Studio.”
ON THE ARTIST: REVIEWS & NOTICES
2024
Brooklyn Rail, April. Mel Kendrick: Cutting Corners,” Barbara MacAdam cites Marjorie Welish’s painting series “Indecidability of the Sign: Yellow/Black” dedicated since 2019 to imitating /morphing construction Caution tape.
2017
Art News, February 1, Barbara MacAdam
2016
Two Coats of Paint, December 7
Art Critical Review Panel, February 7, with David Cohen, Jessica Bell Brown, Jennifer Samet, John Yau
2008
Art News, July by Lilly Wei
Bomb Magazine (First Proof), Summer
www.haberarts.com/myintro.htm [blog], “Diagrams of Disorder,” May 22
New York Sun, May 15, by Jennifer Riley
2006
Art in America, June-July, by Joe Fyfe
New York Sun, April 6, by David Cohen
Village Voice, April 5-11, by Jerry Saltz
2002
Art in America, May, by Edward Leffingwell
Art News, April, by Lilly Wei
New York Observer, January 7, by Mario Naves
Village Voice (listing), January 1
The New York Times, December 28, by Ken Johnson
2001
The New York Times, August 3, by Ken Johnson
1998
Cover, June, by Robert Mahoney
1997
The New York Times, December 19, by Grace Glueck
Review, December 1, by J. Bowyer Bell
The New York Times (New Jersey edition), April 13, by Barry Schwabsky
Amherst (Mass.) Sunday Republican, February 9, by Gloria Russell
1996
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 7, by James Auer
1995
Bomb (illustration), winter
The Art Bulletin, August, by David Carrier
Village Voice, May 2, by Peter Schjeldahl
New York Newsday, April 7, by Amei Wallach
1993
Art in America, November, by Lilly Wei
Art News, October, by Meyer Raphael Rubenstein
The New York Times, July 2, by Holland Cotter
1992
Art Initiatives, September, by Meredith Bergmann
Artspace, May-June, by William S. Wilson
Tema Celeste, January, by Robert C. Morgan. reprinted in his Art of the Nineties (New York: Red Bass, 1993)
1989
Art in America, June, by Gerrit Henry
Arts Magazine, February, by Robert C. Morgan
Cover, January, by Jeff Wright
Print Collector's Newsletter, January
SELECTED WRITING ON ART BY THE ARTIST
2023
Peter Freeman, “Ernst Caramelle,” Two Coats of Paint [blog], May
2022
Fergus McCaffrey: “Leiko Ikemura,” Two Coats of Paint [blog], November
Bortolami: “Morgan Fisher,” Two Coats of Paint [blog], October
“Charles Haxthausen: A Mythology of Forms, Selected Writings on Art, Carl Einstein,” ArtMonthly, May
“Galerie Zurcher: Tom Doyle,” Art Critical online, March
2021
Brooklyn Rail hosts Art Critical trio of panels, November 19
“Luhring Augustine: Richard Rezac,” Art Critical online
2020
David Diao: Painting and Document, [anthology] edited by Stéphane Mroczkowski and Alexandra Pignol, “Abstraction, Advocacy of,” Tema Celeste, January-March 1992 reprinted in David Diao: Peunture et document /Painting and Document (edited by Stéphan Mroczkowski, Alexandra Pignol) Mare et Martin
‘MoMA Redux,’ [feature] Art Monthly
2017
“On the Way to Encountering O’Hara on Art”, Frank O’Hara, ed. Olivier Brossard, Presses
Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2015
“Aleatory Wars,” Journal of Contemporary Painting: Simon Hantäi Issue, edited by Laura Lisbon
2015
”The Case of the Black Quadrilateral,” Mostly Modern: Essays on art and architecture, ed. Joseph Masheck, Hudson Hills
2010
The Studio Reader (eds. Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner) University of Chicago.Art, artist’s statement, and reprinted essays by Welish
2009
“Big Julie Stepping Out,” Fernand Léger, Skira. Papers given at an international conference on Léger, Dijon 2004, compiled and translated. Other authors: Adami, Affron, Criqui, Lanchner, Lucie-Smith.
2008
“Montage, Encore: Une cible mouvante,” Le Montage Dans Les Arts Aux XX et XXI Siecles (sous la direction de Sylvie Coellier), Publications de L’Universie de Provence
“How to Undo/Redo the Object by Osvaldo Romberg,” (ed., Aaron Levy) Searching for Romberg,
Slought Books, Philadelphia, 2001
Signifying Art: Essays on Art Since 1960, Cambridge University Press, 1999. A Book Selection of artnet.com
Reviews: New Art Examiner (July-August 2000; CAA.reviews [e-zine], Craig Adcock,
February 19, 2001; The Burlington Magazine, Merlin James, May 2001; Cahiers 71, NANM, Sylvie Coellier, 2001
1999
“Narrating the Hand: Cy Twombly, Mary Kelly, and the Story of Writing,” Annals of Scholarship
Vol. 13 Nos. 1-2, ed., Marie-Rose Logan, Fall
1998
“Donald Judd,” “Ad Reinhardt,” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press)
“Contratemplates,” Uncontrollable Beauty (Allworth Press)
1997
“Lawrence Weiner,” Speak Art!: The Best of Bomb (Gordon and Breach)
“The Art of Being Sparse, Porous, Scattered,” Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté (The University of Pennsylvania Press)
1996
"Jasper Johns," Bomb , ed., Betsy Sussler, Fall
1995
"The Critic in the Studio" Annals of Scholarship Vol. 10 Nos. 3 4 , eds.,Marie-Rose Logan and Robert C. Morgan, 1993 [published 1995]
1994
"Word into Image" [interviews with Robert Barry, Martha Rosler, and Nancy Spero] Bomb, ed., Betsy Sussler, Spring
SELECTED CATALOGUE ESSAYS
2019
“Decisions, Decisions, Decisions,” [James Siena], Pace Gallery
2007
“Lighting the Site,” What is Salty Water? [Olowska, Camplin], Portikus, Frankfurt-am-Main, October
2003
“Zig-Zag: The art of Olivier Gourvil.” Le Quartier, France, June
“Marked Site: Then...Now,” Peter Downsbrough retrospective, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, June; traveling to France, Poland, Switzerland
1997
6 + 1, Petra Bungert Projects, July
1997
[Drawings by Russell Maltz], Werner Kramarsky, May
1996
Indicating Surface” [Merrill Wagner], William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, October
Boulders from Flatland” [drawings by Jene Highstein], SECCA, February
1995
“Pail For Ganymede” [Robert Rauschenberg], Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, October
1994
“Maquettes and Models” [Siah Armajani and Hannes Brunner], The Swiss Institute, New York, April
"is stuff that was once rock" [Frances Barth], Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March
1993
“Word into Image” [Martha Rosler], Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, September [reprint of interview published in Bomb]
1993
Jonathan Lasker, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, December
1993
“Imagination without Strings” [Rauschenberg retrospective], Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, November
“A Literature of Silence” [Nancy Haynes], John Good, New York, September